Subject: Re: building Python extension modules - crash on import
From: Jason Tishler <[email-masked]>
To: Peter Bienstman <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:51:53 -0400

Peter,

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:01:41PM +0200, Peter Bienstman wrote:
> > Try the attached Makefiles

I knew that Norman would swoop down and save the day!

> Wow, that worked! It's the USE_DL_IMPORT macro that clinched it. I got off
> on the wrong foot by using the gcc_linux makefile in the Boost directory,
> rather than the more general gcc makefile.

BTW, the USE_DL_IMPORT macro, etc. is set automatically if the Cygwin
Python extension is built via the Distutils or Misc/Makefile.pre.in
method.  My recommendation is to try to use Distutils, if possible,
when building Python extensions.

Jason

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